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Newly appointed Broncos coach Kevin Walters has hit the ground running with plans to turn the club around from a diabolic year.
He has hinted at plans to tweak the roster to suit the style of footy he will coach and is hellbent on overhauling the attitude problem amongst players.
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Speaking to Triple M, Walters pinpointed one of the major issues with the Broncos this year was the “total disconnect” from a number of important assets.
“One of the things I said in front of the board in the interview process is that I feel there’s a total disconnect from the Broncos club to the community, their sponsors, their members, their corporate people, the fans in general,” he said.
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“That’s part of my mantra, to make sure there is a connection… and also the players as well, I feel that there’s a disconnect amongst them and the playing staff.
“It’s a no-go zone for me and will be one of the first things when we all get back together that I’ll be addressing.”
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One of the biggest criticisms of the Broncos this year has been the attitude of the players. Paul Kent brought up the sense of entitlement amongst the playing group, saying that from his knowledge it is “off the charts.”
Walters did not disagree and shared his intent to instil some accountability back into the club.
“It is off the charts,” he responded to Kent.
“It’s that simple (to fix it), we go in and we explain the rules of the club and their responsibility of a member of the Broncos’ football club… surely if we dangle those wooden spoons in front of their eyes that’s enough.
“It’s wrong to just blame Anthony Seibold for the season the Broncos have had. It’s disrespectful to Anthony and disrespectful to everyone at the club.
“Everyone needs to shoulder the responsibility of what happened in the organisation this year. That will be my mantra as well, to make sure that responsibility is taken and it doesn’t happen in future years.”
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Walters is keen to get started on his changes. He plans to make calls on the roster and coaching staff in the coming weeks.
“Two things we’ve got to sort out first is the playing roster and there will be some changes there I can assure you of that. Also just sorting out all of our performance staff… that’s going to be done hopefully in the next seven to 10 days.
“(The roster’s) imbalance across the board of ages and games played, I think that’s pretty glaring to everyone.”
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While Walters didn’t give any insight into the changes he’ll be making he did reveal the changes will reflect the exciting attacking game he plans to coach.
“They’re going to play a style of football that we played during the 90s. When you think of the Broncos you always think of their attacking flair, which is one thing we were always very strong on and you’ve got to have the right players to do that,” Walters said.
“Right now there probably needs to be some change to the roster for that to happen across the board.
“And secondly defensively. The Broncos were known as a tough, gritty defensive team that never gave up. No different to the Melbourne Storm or Roosters to what they have in their systems – that was the Broncos of old and it’s slowly drifted away in the last four or five years… they have increasingly gotten poor defensively so that’s part of my mantra.”
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